Olympic Beach Volleyball Qualification Points
No. Names 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Alison/Bruno Schmidt Evandro/Pedro Solberg Brouwer/Meeuwsen
Samoilovs/Smedins J. Fijalek/Prudel Doppler/Horst Losiak/Kantor
10 Dalhausser/Lucena 11
Saxton/Schalk 12 Herrera/Gavira
13 Ranghieri/Carambula 14
Semenov/Krasilnikov NQ Hyden/Bourne
15 Böckermann/Flüggen 16 Nicolai/Lupo
NQ Ricardo/Emanuel NQ Virgen/Ontiveros NQ Binstock/Schachter NQ Mayer/Doherty
NQ Rosenthal/Brunner
No. Names 1 2 3 4
Agatha/Barbara Larissa/Talita
Men as of March 15 Country Brazil Brazil
Nummerdor/Varenhorst Netherlands Gibb/Patterson
Netherlands USA
Latvia Poland Austria Poland USA
Canada Spain Italy
Russia USA
Germany Italy
Brazil
Mexico Canada USA USA
Women as of March 15 Country Brazil
Brazil
Ludwig/Walkenhorst Bansley/Pavan
5 Meppelink/Van Iersel 6 Menegatti/Orsi Toth 7
NQ Juliana/Maria Antonelli 8 9
Bawden/Clancy Broder/Valjas
10
Kolosinska/Brzostek Fendrick/Sweat
11 Borger/Büthe 12
14 Wang/Yue
NQ Laboureur/Sude 15 Walsh/Ross NQ Kessy/Day 16
NQ Gallay/Klug
NQ Ukolova/Birlova NQ Carico/Ross
NQ Dicello/Vanzwieten Zumkehr/Heidrich
NQ Holtwick/Semmler 13
Forrer/Vergé-Dépré Liliana/Elsa
Germany Canada
Netherlands Italy
Austria Brazil
Canada Poland USA
Germany Sweden Germany Spain China
Germany USA USA
Sweden
Argentina Russia USA USA
Events Points 11 12 13 12 12 12 12 11 20 9
13 12 13 14 12 17 12 11 15 12 8 5
6,550 6,130 5,820 5,160 4,980 4,900 4,720 4,700 4,620 4,580 4,560 4,520 4,410 4,350 4,240 4,230 4,200 4,100 4,050 3,720 1,980 860
Events Points 13 11 13 12 13 14 12 10 16 13 13 11 17 16 14 15 17 8
14 15 15 14 10 8
6,870 6,440 5,740 5,550 5,480 4,990 4,840 4,710 4,640 4,560 4,330 4,300 4,270 4,230 4,160 4,090 4,030 3,940 3,860 3,840 3,830 3,830 1,980 980
The crowd at Copacabana Beach already has Olympic beach volleyball fever.
Early dividends Partnership of Dalhausser and Lucena clicks in Brazil
PHIL DALHAUSSER AND NICK LUCENA’S DECISION TO PAIR UP late in the Olympic qualification process has paid off earlier than expected. Dalhausser and Lucena picked up 980 points in two events in Brazil in
March, winning the FIVB’s Maceio Open and then finishing fifth in the Rio Grand Slam one week later. The pair have played in nine events since teaming last August and averaged 508 points per event (third best among FIVB teams). More important, Dal- hausser and Lucena have moved ahead of John Hyden and Tri Bourne in total points despite playing in three fewer events. Casey Patterson and Jake Gibb held a slim 400-point lead over Dalhausser and Lucena after the Rio Grand Slam, but have also played in three more events and were averaging 415 points per start (nearly 100 points less than the Americans chasing them). Patterson and Gibb placed ninth in the Rio Grand Slam.
What that means is that Dalhausser and
Lucena are trending to become the United States’ top entry in the Olympics and likely one of the top three seeds. Hyden and Bourne’s hopes for an
Olympic berth were dealt a blow when the pair had to forfeit three matches in Maceio because of a back injury (sprained sacroiliac joint) Hyden suffered Feb. 17. He retired from the tournament after the first match, a victory over Austria’s Martin Emacora and Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg that he says he never would have been able to finish if they’d served him instead of Bourne. Hyden was confident that he would be ready for the FIVB tournament in Doha, Qatar from April 4-8. Dalhausser and Lucena won 11 of 13 matches in the first two tournaments
Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser picked up gold in the first Brazilian event in Maceio.
in Brazil, defeating Pedro Solberg and Evandro Goncalves in the gold medal match in Marceio. The Americans also beat Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak of Poland in Marceio, but dropped a quarterfinal match to the dynamic young team from Poland the following week in Rio. The Polish team captured their first FIVB Grand Slam gold medal in that event, downing Brazil’s Solberg and- Goncalves in straight sets in the finals.
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